Motivational Quotes

Life

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

12.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

13.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

22.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

30.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

31.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

32.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

33.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

34.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

35.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

36.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

38.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

41.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

42.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

43.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

47.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

48.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.